In the office, looking at the old man sitting on the sofa opposite, I really had a hard time associating him with the word power.

He was about sixty years old, his hair was gray, and he was not dressed very well, a pair of black trousers and a jacket of the same color, typical of a passerby.

If it weren't for the glasses on the bridge of my nose that still revealed a little intellectual sophistication, I would have even thought that I had recognized the wrong person, or that this was just an old man setting up a roadside stall.

But Boss Qin told me that the person's surname is Shao, and his name is hidden here, but he is an old man from the Provincial Department of Justice, a big man who is famous on the side. Recently, Shao Lao has just stepped back because of family reasons, but Yu Wei is still there.

As the old saying goes, "people can't look good", as soon as this old Mr. Shao spoke, I suddenly realized that this person is by no means an idle person, but a typical low-key and introverted wise man with a thousand talents.

With his age and qualifications, I thought that I would have to look sideways when I saw our two hairy guys, but I didn't expect the old gentleman's eyes to be sincere and clear, and he didn't mean to rely on the old and sell the old at all.

In addition, he speaks with quotations from scriptures, and his knowledge and experience are very measured at the same time, without any sense of pretentiousness, which makes people feel particularly cordial.

After chatting politely with each other, the old gentleman got straight to the point and asked me a strange question: Is the length of human life really predestined?

I was a little stuck.

As I said before, there are gods three feet above the head, and there is a determination in the dark.

The fate of a person's life is basically doomed, although there will be variables in the later stage, but these variables are limited. From this point of view, the old gentleman's words are correct.

But it must be noted that this is talking about fate, and the length of life is only one part of fate.

We live in a four-dimensional space, in addition to the visible three-dimensional scenery, there is also a layer of existing but invisible space, commonly known as "fortune".

Through the change of fortune space, although the upper limit of a person's destiny cannot be raised, the change of the lower limit is certain. Among these changes, it is very common to prolong life, get promoted to become wealthy, and give birth to peach blossoms.

So, I don't know how to answer Mr. Shao's question. What's even more strange is that if he wants to tell a hexagram, he should obviously go to Luo Bin, I'm just a trickster, and I'm really an amateur in speculating on divination.

Probably seeing the surprise on my face, the old gentleman sighed and shook his head to say that we had misunderstood him.

He took a sip of Longjing tea on the coffee table, looked a little sad, and told us that his wife committed suicide a month ago, but as for why his wife committed suicide, he still hasn't been able to figure it out.

In fact, I heard Boss Qin talk about this matter on the phone just now, and I know that it was because of family changes that Shao Lao's early retirement was prompted.

The loss of his wife at this age can be described as a great misfortune in life.

But suicide happens every day, and the reasons are also strange, and most of them have no reason, at least it is an extreme means of escaping reality that is not valid in the eyes of outsiders.

We don't know how to explain the old gentleman, so we can only listen to him, which is all a kind of catharsis.

Shao Lao said that his wife also worked in the court, and the two met because of their work relationship, so they naturally came together, and it was rare to have free love in that era.

After marriage, the relationship between the two is very good, with common hobbies and common three views, and there have been almost no contradictions. Even if there is an occasional quarrel, it will never stay overnight, and it is very sweet.

In addition to the fact that they have no children, they are the perfect couple that everyone envies, and they are famous throughout the provincial justice department.

In addition, both of them are highly educated intellectuals, and they are usually busy with work, so they don't pay much attention to whether they have children or not, and everything is fate.

Because they don't have children, they naturally don't have the troubles of ordinary families, such as worrying about their children's marriages, taking care of their little grandchildren, and so on, and they look younger than their peers.

In the past few years, it was popular to retire, and Shao Lao's wife retired early, and there is no so-called sequelae of retreating to the second line, which may be related to the fact that he has been engaged in secretarial work and personal personality.

She is lively by nature, likes to play cards and mahjong, and is also very keen on the now popular square dance, and mixes with a group of old ladies in the community all day long. Every day is either to go to the performance party, or to organize a card game, but it is busier than going to work.

Shao Lao remembered that some time before his wife died, she also began to eat fasting and chanting Buddha, she said that chanting Buddha can calm her mind and make her sleep better at night.

Shao Lao is an atheist, and he doesn't believe in the theory of gods and Buddhas, but seeing his wife's insomnia at night gradually improve, it is up to her to come, after all, it is a good thing for the elderly to eat vegetarian and clear their mouths, which is in line with the way of health preservation.

is such an old lady who laughs constantly every day and has a colorful life, but she committed suicide late one night without warning!

Shao Lao's tears couldn't stop flowing, he said that it was an early spring night, the two went to bed early, read a book for a while as usual, and went to bed with the lights off as usual.

This night, Shao Lao slept very deeply, and he had a long dream. I dreamed that I was wandering around the cultural market of Tianji Mountain, and soon found an old purple clay pot.

He usually likes to drink tea, and he loves purple sand even more, and when he sees the purple sand pot that has been old for a long time and is in good condition, he can't pull out his leg in an instant. Shao Lao bargained with the vendor in his dream, and finally bought it as he wished.

Just as he was packing, Shao Lao felt that someone behind him was pulling his clothes. When I looked back, it turned out to be my wife. He was about to show off the baby he had just received to his wife, but found that her face didn't seem right.

Indeed, the wife's appearance has not changed, but her whole body is covered with a faint blue light, and her expression is extremely stiff, as if her mouth has been sealed, and she can't say anything she wants to say.

Shao Lao woke up from his dream and reached out to touch it, but his wife was not there, and her bedding was already cold. At that moment, Shao Lao suddenly had an ominous premonition.

The lights were on in the living room, quietly.

Shao Lao got up from the bed and groped his way to the living room. And the scene in the living room almost scared him out directly!

A thick hemp rope strangled his wife's neck and hung her on the antique old-fashioned ceiling fan in the middle of the living room, her body like half a frozen pork, her skin glowing under the harsh incandescent light......

Shao Lao was stupefied, and his brain went blank. It took a long time to react, and he hurriedly began to pull his wife down.

Maybe it was because he was too nervous, or the rope was tied too tightly, Shao Lao couldn't work after working hard for a long time. It wasn't until 110 arrived that my wife's body was finally removed from the ceiling fan and became as cold as ice.

At the scene, she left a suicide note with neat fonts, and the camera at home clearly recorded the complete process of her wife getting up in the middle of the night to hanging herself.

All this evidence is conclusive, and it perfectly excludes the possibility of his killing......